Whoa, there's someone walking outside my window…

Members of the Flying Wallendas performed outside of the building this afternoon for a commercial for McDonalds' new coffee campaign. Eighty feet above Monroe Ave, the brother and sister team of Nik and Lijana Wallenda each started at one end of the 5/8ths-inch wide rope and met at the middle for a coffee.

We believe it was a "simulated" coffee, who needs extra caffeine while sitting on a wire 80 feet above the ground. The girl even dropped to do "the splits" in order to sit on the wire. After a few moments for a coffee break, then Nik stepped over Lijana and they both made their way to the opposite ends.

We've seen a lot of activities and things down here, but this was definitely the oddest. The fun thing was, we went up two floors to get an eye-level view of the show. You could hear the cheering from the crowd from inside the building!

See the Photos link at the right for more pix from the event. Also, the newspapers had a story on why she paused so long before coming off the rope. The crains were too tight? Naw, I don't think so, those of us there noticed that Nik's rope (that they use to haul the balance pole up and down) had fallen and she had no where to put the pole. I think that's the real story... Either way, she was stranded for quite a while up there!